Moms spill darkest secrets on new website

By Liz DeCarlo

Senior Editor

4/27/10 3:04 PM

Romi Lassally was exhausted. The youngest of her three kids had
been throwing up all night. The last time it happened, the puke hit
the floor and Lassally was just too tired to do anything about it.
She put Owen back to bed and climbed into bed herself, hoping the
dog would eat it and she wouldn't have to clean up the mess in the
morning.

A few days later, Lassally confessed her bad mom moment to a
friend and was amazed at the response she got. Yes, her friend was
disgusted, but also amused. And she had her own litany of bad mommy
moments.

"It was great to admit to my flawed parenting-a big parenting
don't," Lassally says. "What I got back was, oh my God, I've
thought of that. It opened the floodgates with this one
person."

Lassally figured if she and her close pals found it cathartic to
"confess," then plenty of other moms would too. She created truemomconfessions.com, where
parents can confess their less-than-perfect life or click the "me
too" button if they've felt, or acted, the same way.

"It's just refreshing and comforting to know that, on a hard
day, you're just not alone," she says. "And just when you think
you're being the biggest mom hypocrite, someone else is doing the
same thing or even topping you."

Recently Lassally compiled some of her favorite confessions into
a book, True Mom Confessions: Real Moms Get Real. Here are a few
favorites:

"Last night my son threw his pacifier. I got so mad at him and
yelled, 'We don't throw things!' And then I threw it at him."

"The real reason we can't go to your friend's house? The
mommies don't play well together."

"I haven't taught my kids to tell time yet … that way I can say
it's bedtime whenever I want."

"We held a PTA meeting at my house last night. All the moms
marveled at my clean home. Good thing they didn't look too
closely-I'd put all the dirty dishes in the oven and stuffed the
overflowing pile of clothes (and the stinky dog bed!) in the hall
closet."

"I left my three kids in the hotel room and went and had sex
with my husband in the stairwell!"